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Junior NAACP activists sit-in during a local demonstration. The segregated movie theater is visible in the background.
Reverend Goodwin Douglas was a key organizer for youth participation in local demonstrations.
Junior NAACP activists gathered hand-in-hand in a circle during the demonstration.
Reverend Douglas speaks to a group of Junior NAACP activists during the sit-in.
Junior NAACP activists march at a segregated movie theater in Farmville, Virginia.
Members of the Junior NAACP sit-in at a demonstration in front of a segregated movie theater on Main Street in Farmville, Virginia.
The “Prince Edward State Park for Negroes” (as it was then known) was established as a "separate but equal" facility in 1950 in the wake of a lawsuit by Maceo C. Martin, who challenged Virginia’s policy of providing state parks for whites only.
Playing guitar at Prince Edward Lake, Virginia.
Stan Shaw and Dr. Rachel Weddington with an unidentified child at Prince Edward Lake.
Student Help Project volunteer and local community members lunch at the Prince Edward Lake.
United Federation of Teachers (UFT) volunteers, Jo Davis (left) and Myron Wisotsky (right) with Spottswood Robinson, a lifeguard (center) at the lake.
Student Help Project volunteers and local community members at the Prince Edward Lake.
